Clark v. State

This court is not called upon to consider the first ground of the amendment to the motion for a new trial, *389because it is not complete within itself. This ground simply alleges that counsel “addressed the jury and stated that he desired to read the case of Buchanan v. State, when the court interrupted counsel and refused to permit him to read the law to the jury.” It will be noted that counsel proposed to read “the case,” the whole case. It was not stated where the Buchanan case could be found, nor is it stated that it was germane to the case on trial. However, in Rogers v. State, 128 Ga. 70…